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The Panama Canal Channels Jobs Two out of every three ships that transit the Panama Canal are either headed to U.S. ports — from all 1,700 or so ports in some 159 countries — or headed out from U.S. ports. Following the $5.2 bil- lion Expansion Project’s opening, 22 of the 53 vessels transiting the Canal’s new locks and deepened channels have been tankers, carrying U.S.-sourced energy resources out to the Pacific Rim. Hispanic Engineer magazine’s Garland Thompson reported from Panama.


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